Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Python: making a cardset from the Gnu dictionary

[Peter Bienstman]

Thanks! Feel free to upload this to our site under 'plugins and scripts'.

Cheers,

Peter

On 12/06/2012 09:35 AM, Michael Gentry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for a very interesting project.
>
> In case anyone's interested or can help me improve it, I thought I'd
> post this here. It's a primitive script for turning the Gnu GCIDE
> dictionary files
>
> http://gcide.gnu.org.ua/download
>
> into a Mnemosyne card set. Unpack the CIDE.* files into a directory, run
> this Python 3 script in that directory, and then merge the resultant
> textfiles
>
> $ cat CIDE.* > gcide.txt
>
> Among other problems, I haven't figured out what all the diacritics and
> ligatures mean yet.

[Michael Gentry]

OK, will do - I've figured out most of the diacritic stuff now I think, so check there for an update.

Sorry for the repeat post - didn't see the 'awaiting moderation' notice the first time.

(n.b. there's a typo in the original post of this thread. Should read:
$ cat CIDE.*.txt > gcide.txt )

Cheers.